Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-07
THE NEWS.

Joseph Austin. colored, was drowned while
bathing at Mt. Vernon, o.
Hon. Duncan F. Kenner, a prominent citi>
zen of New Orleans, is dead.
The Holmes county soldiers monument at
Millersburg, Ohio, was dedicated Monday.
In quarrel at dance, near Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, John Black shot and killed his younger
brother.
By an explosion of fireworks at Clifton,
Staten Island, $4,000 worth of property was
destroyed.
The First Regiment, 0. N. g., has gone
into camp at Washington, G. H., for week,
ending July II.
The new directory of the city of st. Paul,
Mimi, shows an increase of twenty-five per
cent. during the year.
A Washington paper asserts that Secretary
of War Endcott rendered his resignation to
the President last week
Peter Nepler, an inoffensive young Ger
man, of Pittburgh, was beaten to death by q
gang of rutfians, Sunday.
A conclave of rabbis of the Jewish church
of America will begin its deliberations in
Pittsburgh Friday, July 8.
VIM. Burris was shot and killed by Zachari>
ah Hibberts at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, on the 4th,
thus terminating an old feud.
Conrad Lance, a yardman at Altoona, Pa,
had both eyes blown out Monday morning by
the explosion of railroad torpedo.
George Armstrong and two horses he was
driving hitched to cultivator, were struck
by lightning and killed near Brazil, Ind.
A rocket set fire to the Webster Brewing
Conpany's malt house, Cincinnati, and the
loss is estimated at $3.50, 200. Two lives we're
lost.
The farmers in the vicinity of Kokomo,
Ind, have been running their self>binding
harvesters at night by the light from the great
gas well.e
tbs said that President Cleveland will soon
remove Postmaster Frank Conger from the
postoffice at Washington and sppoint DEM
Ocrat to the place.
VIM. K. Vanderbilt. with his wife and
three children, left New York Saturday on
his steam yacht AiVa for two years cruise |
around the world.
Mrs. John Vaught, of Somerset, KY, by |
mistake gave her twosyeareold child NOR
phine powder that had been prescribed for
herself, and it died.
Dennis AIshoney, railroad watchman at
Springfield, Ohio, was found murdered, Sat>
lrday morning. Several suspected parties
lave been arrested.
Ben D. House, adjutant general of the In
Llama G. A. R., and known as poet and
journalist throughout the state, died at In
linapolis, Monday morning.
The rumor is again gafioat that Gladstone
will visit America. and this time it is said
hat he will probably come over with Blaine
When the latter returns home.
Noah Harper. convicted of manslsughter at
Iondnn, Ohio, has been sentenced to four
cen years in the peuitentiary. He beat his q
title girl to death last April 4.
At Springfield, Mass, Halsey Gaines,
fteen-year boy, had his scalp partially
orn off and one arm deeply lacerated by
eopard in one Of Barnums cages. C
General Lucus Fairchild, commander-in-
hief of the G. A. R., states positively that
e is out of politics, and that he will not be a
andidate for president, vice. president, or
ny other office.
A large number of persons were prostrated
y the heat at Pittsburgh Sunday. The NOR
slity among children during the past few
weeks has been greater than for many years.
Monday Lolly Robinson killed Chas. Will
ams at Aperton, w. Va, because Of the
alters intimacy with Robinsons wife, and !
hen was himself taken by mob and lynched. s
Postmaster General Villas has reduced Miss I
ian Lew from 81, 200 clerkship to an in
erior position in the dead-letter office. She
ecured the place through Gen. Grant because
+ her loyalty during the war, and her heroic
ervices in alleviating the suffering Of Union
oldiers in southern prisons.
Dan Rice. keeper of the tiger cage in the
ircus exhibiting at Kansas City, while att
ending the animals on Sunday, caught his
rm in the bars and before he could remove e
!, was seized by tiger and torn from its ,
Ocket. The animal then clawed out one of
be eyes of the unfortunate man.
Atkinson, Mo-, is a city given over to dis '
ord since the mayor and council discharged +
be police and fremen, and turned off the gas s
nd electric lights, declaring the city bsnk- :
Ipt and unable longer to maintain these
ecessary adjuncts to municipal government.
hieves and pickpockets are plying their vo. r
alton almost without interruption.
A stylish looking young fellow registered a
the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, as I. P. = =
Iall. New York. He lived high, having ap E
arently plenty of money. After few days L
e informed the hotel manager that he was y
Walker Blaine, son of james g. Blaine. and .
lat he registered as Hall to avoid newspaper
sporters On the strength of his represen-
Itions backed by letters, he swindled the
otel and Bank of Montreal out of several
lousand dollars. He was arrested as be was
bout to skip for Europe. n